Douglas Armati

Who is Douglas Armati?

Douglas "Doug" Armati is an Australian writer, researcher, consultant, business development executive and technical diplomat.

Doug Armati undertook seminal independent research work on digital copyright issues at Murdoch University in Western Australia in 1990–91 before taking a leading role in international efforts to standardize the identification of digital objects.

After a speech on the importance and potential economic benefits of uniform approach to identification of digitized copyright content to the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 1994 he wrote two pivotal reports in 1995 – the first for the STM group on Information Identification and the second for the Association of American Publishers on Uniform File Identifiers. Armati's work for these leading global publishing bodies on both sides of the Atlantic was an important catalyst for the birth of the Digital Object Identifier Foundation.